By Mark McClennan, SVP, MSLGROUP There are three answers to almost any question at SxSW this year: AI, bots or VR. Frankly, all three answers are interconnected along the same spectrum. Bots have become much more useful over the past year because of advances in machine learning, and machine learning and AI is getting us to the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything. What do PR and communication ...

By Mark McClennan, SVP, MSLGROUP The first day of SxSW has come to a close, and if I had to sum it up, it was a day of surprises. The great conversations were still there – no surprise there. Only at SxSW can you have great conversations with communications executives at the CIA, Converse, Mall of America, McDonald’s, a law tech startup and investment bankers from Brazil. The surprise was the fragmentation ...

Expedicionários da Saúde is a Brazilian NGO that provides assistance to indigenous communities in regions far from the Amazon, performing surgeries and quality treatments so that these communities can maintain their key role in protecting the forest. Guardians of the Forest captures the wonderful work that the volunteers do with the support of MSLGROUP ANDREOLI. About Expedicionários da Saúde (EDS) B ...

By Pascal Beucler, SVP & Chief Strategy Officer, MSLGROUP The choice of winners at major festivals in 2016 confirmed that ‘emotion’ is climbing up the ladder of priorities for successfully engaging with people, and it is certainly here to stay. The ingredients for success seem certainly constant: a strong idea, anchored in a sharp insight, with a holistic creative execution, delivering tangible results ...

By Melody Kimmel, Senior Vice President and Training Program Lead, MSLGROUP Responsive and responsible leadership requires both sides of the brain. It also means properly understanding and navigating the emotional landscape. As a media and presentations trainer with two decades of experience, the theme of “responsive and responsible leadership” at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos got me thinking ab ...

By Peter Steere, Chairman, EMEA, MSLGROUP The best outcome a leader can hope for is to be able to create the space and environment for his or her co-workers to be heroes. One thing you can say about today’s world – it isn’t boring. Demanding yes, but boring no. The climate is changing, politics is shifting and the economy is pivoting east, while everyone is trying to find solid ground under their feet and d ...

By Guillaume Herbette, Global CEO, MSL In his recent op-ed, my colleague Nigel Salter, CEO of Salterbaxter MSLGROUP, placed the onus on business to mend the gap it has with society. “Business need to re-connect to society and its needs, deploying its amazing innovation and capacity to address global challenges and see these challenges for what they really are: a truly rare opportunity to rethink the relatio ...

By Nigel Salter, CEO, Salterbaxter MSLGROUP The role of business in society and the need for it to step up is more important than ever. Yet, right now, the voice of business, our institutions and what many see as the liberal elite is struggling to be heard. Political upheaval and election results like Brexit and the Trump election; increasing demands for transparency and disclosure; the kick in the teeth to ...

By Steve Bryant, Director, Food & Beverage Marketing; Managing Director, MSLGROUP Seattle This article first appeared on: The Holmes Report And after the onslaught of discord and division on the political front, food continues to transcend and be the connective force of our society. There’s tremendous power in humans coming together over a collective bowl, connecting back to our commonality as creatures ...

An interview with MSLGROUP's Anthony Poncier, Social Business and Digital Transformation Director EMEA and Sarika Waje, Associate Director, Global Knowledge Management by Collaboratif-info's Olivier Roberget. At its heart, a Knowledge Management project is primarily a human project. ‘Human engagement’ begins from the first moment needs are collected, and continues well after the platform contributes to a us ...